Antifriction bearing



Sept. 4', 1923. 1,467,063

C. A. NELSON ANTIFRIGTION BEARING Filed Dec. 31. 1921 A INVENTOR' 0 Qhafles Mason f v a A 3 I v Q a I.

A TTOR/VE Y Patented Sept. 4, 1923.

innate re n oEA aLEs A. NELSON, or 'U'rr'cA, NEW YORK.

ANTIFRIGTION BEARING.

Application filed December 31, 1921. Serial No. 526,205.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A.- NELSON,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Utica, in the county'ot Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new'and useful Improvements in Antifriction Bearings, of whichthe following is a specification. This invention relates to anti-friction bearings and particularlyv to anti-friction bearings of the type in which the anti-triction elements are arranged in more than one row around the axis'ot' the bearing. The

principal object of the invention is to pro vide abearing of the particular type indicated in. which the anti-friction elements, as balls, may have ample diameter and yet the so-called cage for keeping said elements separated may present sufficient thickness of material between such elements to give the cage adequate strength and durability. Other objects of invention relate to improve ments in the construction or-c ages for antifriction bearing in general, having especially in view facility in assembling the parts, simplicity of construction and reduction of the cost of manufacture.

In the drawing, 7

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the inner and outer races of an anti-friction bearing and of the anti-friction elements therebetween in the positions the several parts are made to occupy atthe inceptionot the assembling operation;

Figures 2 and 3am a transverse sectional view and a side elevation partly in section of the outer and innerraces;

Figure l is a tIZLIISVGISGSGCtIODa-I view of the assembled bearing structure, illustrating a cage such as appears in Fig. 5, for exam and c theanti-friction elements, here shown as balls. The balls are arranged around the axis of rotation in two circumferential rows, one sufliciently offset laterally with respect to the otherso that the balls in each row somewhat overlap a planeperpendicular to said ax s. The races "have continuous ring he also curved,at least at'the insidesee Fig. 4). For securing the two; rings and Fi ures 5 6 7 8 and'9 are fra mentar b 7 3 7 y grooves a Z) confiningthe rows of elements to move in paths in which those in each row constantly overlap said plane and are offset laterally with respect to those in theother.

The cage ror'separating theballs is con-v 'structed so as to partition them off inspairs from each other, each pair being composed:

of one ball from each row, and so asfurther tospace'suchpairs from each other further thaiithercomponents of each pairare spaced from, each other; in other words said cage,

is constructed so that in separating the balls it maintains the balls ofeach row staggered with reference to those of the other and staggered, moreover, so that viewed laterally or viewed in plan't'he ballsot each row are off the centers between the balls of the other row. Different forms of cages embodying this construction and certain other features will be now described in detail:

In Fig. 5 (see also Fig. 10) the cage comprises two reverse counterpart rings (Z and. rectangular blocks 6 intervening between them. Each ring is appreciably thinner viewed from a point radial thereof than it is viewed laterally, this latterdimcnsion being preferably such that when the ring isin place between the races at and (Fig.4) it v will fit fairly snugly. the intervening space. Viewed edgewise each ring has a series or parallel and oblique walls d and, alternating with and connecting said walls, the curved bearing walls dv. (Each wall d may as viewed in the. radial section of the intervening blocks c togethcr-the blocks intervening specifically between the portions d of the rings-I' may provide studs 6 pro jectingfrom both lateral racesoi someor all or the blocks and cause them to penetrate suitable holes inthe portions diot the rings and then upset or rivet the protruding ends of the studs as shown in Fig. 5 at e, In

Figf 6 there are also reverse counterpart:

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rings'f andblocks g intervening between them. 'Each ring is here also '.a pprec iably thinner viewed from a point radialtthercoif than it is viewed laterally. But in this case it comprises a series of alinedovalls ft and,

alternating with andconnectingsaid walls,

thecurved bearing walls 7. The blocks r in this instance are Z-shaped andi'nayLhave stud gprotruding. laterally from both faces llO thereof through'the rings in such manner that their free ends may be upset or riveted, as at g, to secure the rings and blocks tonether. L In both Figs. 5 and 6 the blocks 0 and y, it will he observed, as well as the curved portions or said ring, attord bearings for the balls 0. in Fig" 7, in which the construction is somewhat similar to Fig. 5, the blocks are omitted and -the rings it have their oblique w lls 72 intervening between the curred bearing walls 71/, directl connected hy rivets '2". in Fig. R the construction is somewnat similar LO Fin. 6 in that the rings j have alined walls j and interveninn curred walls 7' (though somewhat shah lower than the curved walls 7' in Fig. 6) and in' that the blocks is are ot. "he same general shape in Fig. 6, though with. corn cave cu res 7a affording bearings for the halls instead of the angular recesses atlording' the hearings for the halls in Fig. 6; but each block is divided in a radiat plane is into two sections, and each section has on each lateral. l ar-e thereof near such plane a stud Za, each two adjoining studs of each two adjoining sections heinn' adapted to enter into and lit a. prete ably rectangular hole 51" in the ring j. it will he noted that Hill section ot the block, by dividing it as stated, is in plan appreciably thinner at one side. as at 0:, than it is at the other. as at 1 the part .a forming: a tongue that by acting wedge-l'ashion tax-illtates assembling, as will be explained. v

lnFig. 9 the rings are omitted and the cage is composed of reverse counterpart sections 7. Each section, viewed in plan. has two pairs of steps Z Z, affording bearings for the balls, in which one pair is offset circumterentially with relation to the other but in which. the two steps 7/ are otlj'set axiall; with respect to the two steps Z the same distance as the grooves a" Z) of the races are thus oltset; and between the two pairs of steps is a laterally projecting tongue 3 whose :tree end may be split, as Z, to form a spiit-riret which as shown will when expanded or upset orerlap the tacos of two other such but opposite sections between which the section in question is interposed. The proper number of balls 0 for each row being interposed hetween the races the cage parts in 5 and I are brought together from opposite sides of the races so as to poch t the halls in the various recesses formed by the curred walls or" the rings, preferably having first connected the blocks in Fig.- 5 either all with one ring or some with one ring and some with theother, the studs are entered in the'holes in the rings and then riveted; in Fig. 6, the blocks 9 are introduced between the pairs of balls, and

then the rings applied and riveted to the locks; .in Fi 8, the two sets of sections may he cont Mont-1y secured by the rivets to the respective rings and then the rings, carrying such sections, applied from opposite sides of the races, the sections of one set sliding;- on those of the other and their wedge-portions a: acting to facilitate the se iaration by wedeing the balls apart, whereupon the sections on one ring are riveted to the other; and in Fig. 9, the one set o5 sections may be first applied and then those of the other, the two sets being: finally r? cted together. In 9 each portion 1'' acts wedge-fashion to separate the halls.

(The wedging action, on entering thecag'e members, also applies to Figs. 5 and 7 it is not indispensable that the cage structure have as a part thereof means f0]? securing its component parts together or in operative relation to the rolling;- elements, although such mans is apart of said structure in the examples herein givenf liy arraire'ine the rows of elements 0 staggered and so that those ineach row project into the (llLlUil'iOl'QBilfll path followed by those in the other, and, further, by providing a cage so torined that it holds the pairs of elements. one from each row, separated pair tor pa 1: "i'urtlicr than the elements in each pair are apart, the rolling elements ma} be made larger than possible in ordinary pluri-row-hearings and. the cage have adequate thickness and hence strength heiiweeu the pairs oi halls.

Haring thus tuliv described my iZlVQIltion, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. tin anti-friction hearing including two continuous coaxial races, two continuous and side-by-side rows of rolling elements confined between and by said races to coaxial paths and with the elements in each row pr iecting' into the path of the other row, and a cage having means to holdpairs of the rolling elements, one element from each row, separated each pair from the next further than the elements in each pair are apart. i

2-. a anti-friction bearing including two continuous coaxial races,rollinn' elements ariangedbctwecn said races, and a cage having means to hold said elements in two side by side continuous rows coaxial with the races and with the elements in each row projecting into the pathot rolling of the other row and with said elements arranged in pairs, one element from each row, separated each pair from the next further than the elements in each pair are apart.

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CHARLES A. NEESON. 

